Sentences with phrase «airplane designer jiro»

Hayao Miyazaki, the master craftsman of hand - drawn animation, comes bumping into Venice with The Wind Rises, a gorgeous yet ultimately frustrating tribute to the Japanese airplane designer Jiro Horikoshi.

Hayao Miyazaki's «The Wind Rises,» the Japanese auteur's alleged final work, which delicately recounts the life of airplane designer Jiro Horikoshi.

Working with his engineering partner, J. B. Straubel, and airplane designer Burt Rutan, Rosen developed an unmanned plane powered by a hydrogen engine.

For one thing, they knew that carmakers had never been forced, like airplane designers, to completely subjugate styling to aerodynamics.

Not exact matches

Hawkins and his co-founder, designer Steen Strand, founded Icon in 2006, after the FAA created a new category of airplanes called «light sport aircraft,» designed for recreational aviation.

The Oogaa baby mealtime set includes the colorful silicone bowl and designer spoons, one with a train on top, and one with an airplane.

Rutan first came to fame in 1986 as the revolutionary designer of Voyager, the first airplane to circle the globe nonstop without refueling.

Most recently, he and his colleague Nigel Peake showed, mathematically, that the noise from airplane wings could be reduced tenfold if their designers took a few cues from the feathers that fringe the trailing edge of an owl's wings.

Jiro — inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni — dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes.

While searching for different locations, the production designer James Bissell bought me a model of this Airbus airplane and presented it as something we could use in the movie.

Determined to become a designer of airplanes, a spirited young boy embarks on a life of romance and adventure.

The biggest brainwave designers had was to cant the dash toward the passenger, creating what looks like an airplane wing from above.

Taking advantage of the streamlined packaging, Audi designers shaped the dashboard into an elegant shape that's supposed to resemble an airplane's wing.

2) I've talked to lots of scientists doing simulations of all sorts of things: — automobiles (Computational Fluid Dynamics for streamlining, crash codes for simulating care crashes — for the latter, sometimes simulations tell the designers that removing metal actually makes a car safer (ex: Ford Taurus, at one point)-- airplanes — bridges, oil platforms, buildings — human blood vessels and likely effects of surgery

When aircraft designers design an airplane, they don't design for a 1 % probability of an in - flight structural failure.